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  • s  of trifling worth

  • The ha'penny, thrup'ny and sixpenny pieces and the shilling in all its variations are being withdrawn from circulation.
  • The pound note would be scrapped, and the 10-shilling note become the standard denomination, while shillings would represent ten penny units like the dime; the present sixpenny bit .
  • Feeling perhaps that the King's favorite book, Boswell's Johnson, was not all suitable for a very tired invalid, Her Majesty sought the sixpenny book counter, picked out The .
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  • Marion Crawford in Monsters and Critics.com
    Writing in 1939 at Balmoral, Marion said: "I thought we should make some preparation, so I took them to Woolworths in Aberdeen, where we did some shopping and invested in the sixpenny china ornaments and brooches which usually made the bulk of their...

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